I love the Web and I love having a blog, because this gives me a legitimate (if somehow morbid) reason to go hunting for Latino-related stories on the Internet.

And thanks to this perpetual search, I learned today that there is a town in Illinois called Carpentersville, where Hispanics are organizing against a group of politicians who promise a crack down on illegal immigration and to make English the official language of the town.

Carpentersville has a population of 37,000, of which 40% are Hispanic, according to a story on today’s Chicago Tribune.

City officials claim Latinos (mostly of Mexican origin) are giving the town a bad name. Moreover, a series of fliers distributed to thousands of homes in a recent day, stated: “Are you tired of sending lunch money with your children while illegal aliens get a free breakfast or lunch?”
Wow! the place doesn’t even have a downtown, but there’s free food for Latinos! I guess that is something worth telling my paisanos, always eager to get a free meal in this country.

How does one get to Carpentersville?